A fair warning: Everything you've heard about Dark Souls up until this point is entirely true. This game isn't a game you enjoy; rather, it's a game you survive. It is not meant to make you feel powerful, nor is it meant to make you satisfied as you tear through enemy after enemy. There is no strong narrative, no interesting characters, and no motivation to continue -- only the sense of pressing on and surviving one more encounter...
With Elden Ring's DLC Shadow of the Erdtree coming this month, JDR takes a look back at the greatest Soulsborne bosses. To start with, those of Dark Souls.
"Dark Souls: Archthrones is like playing a brand new FromSoftware game, and that speaks volumes about just how much good modding can do," says Hanzala from eXputer.
Parrying has been creeping into more games, with almost every high-profile title of the last few years featuring it in some way. Why?
i understand the authors frustration i'm not the best at parrying in games. not that i can't complete a game that requires it but it is a definite harder thing for me than other kinds of techniques in games. which might be the main reason it's so heavily added in games nowadays. want to make your game challenging without having to do a lot of work? just add a parry boss. (what i mean by parry boss is a boss you have to beat by parrying such that their attacks will kill you otherwise)
I always think it's fine as long as such games also have the roll/dodge panic button. But I understand the will to parry, it seems so cinematic in a fight when you pull it off.
My Game of the Year
the more time passes and i look at them in retrospect, the more i feel Dark Souls might just be better than Skyrim. it really is a unique and challenging experience.
Excellent game. With the release of Dark Souls and Skyrim, I have started to change my thinking on buying games. I have decided going forward unless the game is going to give me alot of play time I am renting. I just can no longer shell out 60 bones for a 10 or 15 hour game. It will have to be an RPG, a game I want to play multiple times, or if its a shooter it will need alot of content like Gears 3.
The only games I am definitely getting next year is Witcher 2 (360), ME3, and Kingdoms of Amalur.